Here is a great snack for kids. Full of the chocolatey sweet taste they want, but with some cunning raisins and beetroot added so that you can help them achieve their 5-a-day quota!
I’ve got a few beetroot left that are looking a bit sad now; so I’m going to use them up with this recipe to save on food waste!
Ingredients
200g self raising flour
75g cocoa powder
225 caster sugar
75 raisins
2 eggs
200ml oil
250 blended cooked beetroot (approximately 4 small ones)
Method
- Pre heat oven to 190
-Sift flour and cocoa powder into a bowl and add sugar and raisins. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs into the oil. Add the beetroot and mix well.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix everything together lightly. Lumps don’t matter with muffins!
- Spoon the mix into 12 muffin cases and bake for 20-25 minutes until brown and risen.
Look out for silicone muffin cases, so that you reduce your household waste!
recipe credit: "Cook with California raisins" cookery booklet available for free download from their site.
About the author
Rachelle Strauss, dubbed the Green Goddess, writes for various magazines about green and environmental issues. She writes down to earth, honest and informative articles to inspire and empower the reader. Look out for her first book to be published late summer 2009 – "Self Sufficiency: Household Cleaning", by New Holland Publishers. She lives with her husband and their daughter in semi-rural England and you can follow her family’s adventures towards achieving zero waste on her My Zero Waste website.
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God….anything that starts with ‘Raisin and Chocolate’ will hook me in missus. Nice recipe, you have so many of them – you should pen a book chick…. Beetroot is so underrated, delicious and dead easy to grow. I hope your note inspires people to get a growing…with a view to eatin’. TS
You enjoy them Mrs S. Yesterday’s muffins were made with bananas and raisins. They went down a storm…
I see you recommend silicon bakeware. I read somewhere that there are concerns regarding these products and the leaching of silicon oil into food. Does anyone know anything about this?